Means "Dark beauty". Eric Clapton wrote and sang a song called 'Layla'. Stunning name.

-- Anonymous User 6/27/2005

Layla actually means "dark night" in Arabic.

-- Anonymous User 9/5/2005

The meaning of the name is NOT, in fact, "night". This is a common mistake, if you inspect the spelling in Arabic you can see they're two different words. The name LAYLA means the light, giddy feeling when one has the first drink of the night, that is, not drunk but on the way to being drunk, the beginning of the intoxication. I hope I have translated it clearly.

Layla is an ARABIC name, not Hebrew and it means night fall or evening. Not dark beauty, and Eric Clapton's song was about his wife who cheated on him with a close friend... Layla was not her name obviously, for legal purposes.